Building IT

Developing a good web application is a tricky job.  Deploying one that gains people’s acceptance can be a big challenge.  The good ones that come into mind are Twitter, Pandora, and tumblr. Is there a recipe for building a good web application? I watched an excellent presentation by Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist who invested [...]

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Customers are very fickle when checking out a company’s web site.  Unless they’re desperate, a person browsing a site tend to go quickly from one page to another.  Their attention span is short.  Their time is valuable.  They don’t want to spend too much time waiting for a web page to load. Companies have spent [...]

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Having a custom “page not found”, or 404 page, is an important modification for any website.  It’s used to enhance the user experience by presenting an easy to understand message. Setting up a user friendly error page is simple enough using Apache web server.  Just modify the line in httpd.conf and point it to a [...]

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Incorporating the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) library is straight forward with Apache web server.  This is the library I always use for all of my Apache web servers installations.  From one robust open source software to another, they’re a perfect fit.  They make deployment quick and easy.  Here’s are the steps for Apache [...]

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The talk around Twitter right now is the phishing scam via Direct Message, as reported by many including Read Write Web, Mashable, and Chris Pirillo.  The victims include Twitter accounts for Barack Obama, Fox News, Britney Spears, and Rick Sanchez of CNN.   Getting their Twitter account hacked is a potential public relations nightmare.  The bait [...]

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